Display device

ABSTRACT

A display case for small handguns, gems, coins and other items. This display is cylindrical in configuration having removable ends, caps, the caps preventing dust from entering the cylinder and brackets secured to a base member supports the cylinder so that it may be rotated by the knobs carried within the end caps on the brackets. The cylinder includes a slideable shelf on its interior. The shelf being slideable when the device is rotated.

United States Patent 1,781,769 11/1930 Stout 312/125 2,362,095 11/1944 Ressinger 312/125 FOREIGN PATENTS 631,591 11/1949 GreatBritain 312/252 Primary Examiner-Bobby R. Gay Assistant Examiner- Darrell Marquette Attorney-Dominik, Knechtel & Godula ABSTRACT: A display case for small handguns, gems, coins and other items. This display is cylindrical in configuration having removable ends, caps, the caps preventing dust from entering'the cylinder and brackets secured to a base member supports the cylinder so that it may be rotated by the knobs carried within the end caps on the brackets. The cylinder includes a slideable shelf on its interior. The shelf being slideable when the device is rotated.

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NV/L/J'l I [2 HERMAN E. MELCHE entering and settling upon the antique guns, gems, coins or the like being displayed.

A further object of this invention is to provide a device of the type described which will have the cylinder rotatable by the knobs on the ends of the device and a plastic or glass shelf supporting the objects being displayed is slideable along the inner periphery of the cylinder and the device will be easily assembled or disassembled when desired.

clean cylinder 12. A knob having a screw portion 16 is Other objects of the present invention are to provide a display device which is simple in design, inexpensive to manufacture, rugged in construction, easy to use and efficient in operatron.

These and other objects will become readily evident upon a study of the following specification and the accompanying drawing wherein:

FIG. 1 is a side view of the present invention shown in elevation and partly broken away;

FIG. 2 is a view taken along the lines 2-2 of FIG. 1; and

FIG. 3 is cross-sectional view taken along the lines 3-3 of FIG. 1.

According to this invention,'a display device 10 is shown to include an elongated rectangular configurated base 11 made of wood or other suitable material. The carriage rotatably above and spaced apart from base 11 is an elongated transparent cylinder 12 made of plastic or other suitable material in which antique guns, gems, coins and other articles may be displayed.

The ends of cylinder 12 are slidably received within annular grooves 13 of end caps 14 which are removable in order to threadably received through the center of end cap 14 and provides rotation means for cylinder 12 when desired.

The screw portion 16 of knobs 15 are slideably received within angularly sloping slots 16 of the cylinder 12 support brackets 17, the lower portions of brackets 17 being secured fixedly through the ends of base 11 in order to rotatably support the transparent cylinder 12.

Within the interior of cylinder 12, is an elongated rectangular configurated transparent shelf 18, said shelfs longer edges engaging the inner periphery of said cylinder 12 in order that when said cylinder 12 is rotated by the knobs 15, the shelf 18 will remain substantially parallel with base 1 1.

In use, cylinder 12 is rotated by means of the knobs 15 when desired and in order to clean the assembly the screw portions 16 may be removed from the slots 16 of brackets 17 whereupon the end caps 14 may be unscrewed from the open ends of cylinder 12 allowing the interior periphery to be cleaned and the surfaces of said shelf 18 to be cleaned.

What i now claim is:

l. A display device comprising a base, a pair of brackets affixed to said base in vertically disposed, spaced-apart positions, a transparent hollow cylinder, a pair of end caps removably affixed to the respective ends of said cylinder so as to close said cylinder in a fashion such that the interior thereof is uninterrupted, whereby the interior of said cylinder is substantially sealed against dust, dirt and the like and objects can be placed within the interior of said cylinder for purposes of displaying them, support means fixedly secured to each of said end caps for rotating said cylinder, said support means further being removably supported by said pair of brackets to permit said end caps and said cylinder to be removed when desired and disassembled for the purpose of cleaning said cylinder and removing from and replacing objects therein, and a shelf slidably received and supported within said cylinder by the interior wall thereof, said shelf providing support means for objects displaced within said cylinder.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein said pair of end caps each has an annular groove therein for receiving the end of said cylinder to removably affix said end caps to said cylinder. 

1. A display device comprising a base, a pair of brackets affixed to said base in vertically disposed, spaced-apart positions, a transparent hollow cylinder, a pair of end caps removably affixed to the respective ends of said cylinder so as to close said cylinder in a fashion such that the interior thereof is uninterrupted, whereby the interior of said cylinder is substantially sealed against dust, dirt and the like and objects can be placed within the interior of said cylinder for purposes of displaying them, support means fixedly secured to each of said end caps for rotating said cylinder, said support means further being removably supported by said pair of brackets to permit said end caps and said cylinder to be removed when desired and disassembled for the purpose of cleaning said cylinder and removing from and replacing objects therein, and a shelf slidably received and supported within said cylinder by the interior wall thereof, said shelf providing support means for objects displaced within said cylinder.
 2. The display device of claim 1, wherein said pair of end caps each has an annular groove therein for receiving the end of said cylinder to removably affix said end caps to said cylinder. 